The Bird Men

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 Historians and Archeologist consider seafaring as one of the benchmarks of civilization and the date for this important technology keeps on getting pushed back. Southeast Asians reached Northern Australia using rafts becoming the regions first indigenous populates, according to Brian Lavey Curator of National Maritime Museum of London.

  Archeologists at the University of Australia claim that evidence of advanced seafaring is directly connected with the finds of human bones, found dated to 30,000 years ago, in underwater caves on the pacific island of New Ireland. The archaeologists said that they must have arrived by boat because there weren’t any land bridges in the area.

 There is evidence that Southeast Asians again took to the seas around 4000 B.C.; navigated vast expanses of waters in outrigger canoes, settling the islands of the south pacific.

 Round skin stretched over reeds or wood called Quaff was used in the rivers of Mesopotamia around 3500 B.C. To travel the Tigress and Euphrates Rivers and their trading allowed these civilizations to thrive.

 King Sargon, King of Samara 2234-2279 B.C., stated my challenging mother conceived me, in secret she bore me—she set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid.  She cast me in a river which rose not over me.

   God or a (extraterrestrial god) walked with Noah and told Noah to build an Ark of Gopher wood, sealed with pitch inside and out, three stories high, with a door in its side. This event was about 4000 B.C. In modern terms depending on how you interpret a cubit the Ark was 450' long—75' wide --45' high. The size of a modern day freighter.

  A small non-descript pacific island is the wonder of the world.  It has its own strange alphabet which has not been deciphered to this day.  Ten thousand Tons of steel hard volcanic rock had been cut out of inland mountains on the island and spread around the whole island.

 Hundreds of statues were carved out of this volcanic rock which today would take an air chisel with diamond hard carbide blades.  They are between thirty three and sixty six feet tall and weigh as much as fifty tons. They are still there to this day circling the island like Omni present sentries.

   These sentries” statues” originally wore hats, interesting as it is strange, the hats were of a different stone !  These hats weighed ten tons apiece.   They were  from a different part of the island than the stone from which the bodies were made.

    It is interesting to note that these ten ton stone hats had to be lifted seventy feet in the air to be put the head of the  volcanic stone statues.

There were wooden tablets, with strange inscriptions on them, today there are only a few found in a few museums throughout the world.

 There are those who say that early missionaries removed these wooden scripted tablets to the Vatican Archives and have remained in the possession of the church.

 It is interesting to note the similarities between these scripts and the scripts from the Indus Valley half way around the world.  It is felt the Indus Valley scripts are of the Dravidian civilization.  It is also very interesting that Easter island and the Indus Valley are on the same latitude!

Thor Heyerdahl’s investigation of these unusual finds produced three separate periods in our history.   Interesting the oldest period seems to be the one which is best preserved.
   
  Dr. Heyerdahl found charcoal which was dated to AD 400. Dr. Heyerdahl found many unfinished statues near rock faces and near edges of craters.  He also found thousands of stone implements, stone axes.  It appeared as though the work was suddenly abandoned by a huge work force.

 Of course this island is known today as Easter Island.  The islanders are more familiar with astronomy than with the rest of our own world. No trees grow on the island.  A few hundred islanders live on this island to this day.

 There are not resources to support more than this small village and definitely not enough resources to support the thousands of workers needed to build these stone formations.

 One wonders why these statues line the perimeter of the island and its craters.  Why aren’t there statues in the interior of the island?  The church prefers the world to keep wondering by burning the wooden tablets with inscriptions and preventing the local religion of the gods to prevail.

  They tried to prevent the islanders from practicing their own religion and enjoy their traditions and culture, but the islanders even to this day refer to their island as the island of ‘THE BIRD MEN’.